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— The blae-winged teal — An excellent bird — Cotton and whuitling 

 teal — Not worth shooting — Widgeon and pochards — Swarm in 

 thoufiands — Mallard — Similar to the English bird — The spotted bill 

 and ^wall — The pin-tailed duck — The red-orested pochard and 

 white-eyed dock — The shoveller — Wild geese — Two varieties — The 

 common, or grey-bag, and the pink-footed gooee — A curious hybrid 

 bird, half goose, half duck — Bittern — Same as the English bird — 

 Ground game — Hare only — No rabbits in India — Hare aQord good 

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HcmnantB of Babajee gang — Joined by the Barwattis — A formidable 

 coalition — Rounding them up — Another European officer shot dead — 

 The gang finally destroyed — More about tigers — A tigress and three 

 cubs— Monkeys announce their presence — I shoot the tigress — 

 Driving out the cubs — Two roUod over — Beaters dispose of third — 

 Wounded tigers often lost — Cases in point — H.) A tiger on an island 

 — The b«kt begun — A momentary glimpse — Snap -shooting — Crash- 

 ing through the jungle — Mysterioos disappearance — " Here he is I " 

 — Found dead under water! — A mangy specimen — A remarkable 

 dying efiort — (2) Another instance — Three tigers put up — Two soon 

 disposed of — In pursuit of the third — Marked down — A snap-shot 

 agam— Concluded he was missed — Further search abandoned — 

 Found dead the next day — Man-eating tigers — Happily now rare — 

 Indenting on ancient history — Alarming news at 5 a.m. — Camp in 

 transit — Attacked by man-eater — Disobedience of orders — A bullock 

 driver carried off — Panic-stricken servants — Pursuit taken up — The 

 bodv found hall eaten — Man-eating tigers on high road — The traffic 

 held up — Seven hundred human victims ! — Mail-cart attacked — 

 Tiger jumps from a hillock — Horse badly scarred^-Shown to travellers 

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